CN1204039A - Automatic ice maker of refrigerator - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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Abstract
An automatic ice maker of a refrigerator has a housing, an ice-making container for making an ice by freezing the water, a motor for generating the driving force, a power transmitting apparatus, a first micro switch for sending a first signal to a control unit for reversing a driving direction of the motor by making contact with the power transmitting apparatus, a second micro switch for sending a second signal to the control unit for closing an electric power applied to the motor by making contact with the power transmitting apparatus, and a third micro switch for sensing whether or not an ice cube storage bin which is disposed below the ice-making container is fully filled up with ice, and for sending a third signal to the control unit for stopping an operation of the ice maker when the ice cube storing bin is fully filled up with the ice. Since the automatic ice maker is easy to stably control the automatic ice maker, thereby decreasing the occurrence of a malfunction thereof.
Description
The present invention relates to a kind of refrigerator, relate in particular to a kind of automatic ice-making device of refrigerator.
Usually, refrigerator comprises refrigerating chamber, refrigerating chamber and ice-making compartment.Utilize fan to arrive above-mentioned each chamber through the cooled cold air transmission ﹠ distribution of subcooler.Refrigerating chamber is used to store the food that need be frozen, and refrigerating chamber is used for low-temperature storage food, and ice-making compartment is produced ice by chilled water.The ice maker that is used for chilled water just is installed in the ice-making compartment.Ice maker is a kind of device that is used for ice making, and in this device, water is supplied in the ice maker container, is frozen in this container then, utilizes driver part to make ice maker container upset afterwards and ice cube is discharged.
In U.S. Patent No. 5,177,980 (patentee is Akira kawamoto et al.) and No.5 in two pieces of documents of 400,605 (patentee is Sung-Ki Jeong.), disclose the ice maker with following structure.
As shown in Figure 1, the automatic ice-making device 100 of refrigerator comprises; One is contained in motor 110, one that being used in the body 105 produce driving force and is used to transmit the rotating ice maker container that is connected with gear train 120 of the gear train 120, of the driving force that is produced by motor 110 130, an ice cube storage bin 150 that is used to store from the ice cube of ice maker container 130 discharges, and a sensor bar 160 that is used for detecting the ice cube amount of ice cube storage bin 150.
In addition, ice maker container 130 is pivotally connected on the fixed head 132, and this fixed head 132 is integrally formed on the side of body 105.Ice maker container 130 is the tank of a spill, and concave portions 137 is spaced apart by dividing plate.Circular shaft 134 is formed on first side of ice maker container 130 highlightedly, and circular shaft 134 inserts in the circular trough 136 that is formed on fixed head 132 sides rotationally.Be formed with rectangular slot 138 on second side of ice maker container 130, the axis 121 of driving gear 128 can insert this groove.
The axis 121 of driving gear 128 inserts in the cam 129, and an end of sensor bar 160 contacts with cam 129.Sensor bar 160 includes with cam 129 contacted first ends, has the second end of reclinate sweep, and the mid portion between first end and the second end, be formed with the pivot hole 166 that pivot pin 168 is passed on the sensor bar 160, thereby sensor bar 160 pivotally is fixed on the body 105.The sweep 164 of sensor bar 160 is positioned at ice cube storage bin 150, is used to detect the quantity of ice cube.Limit switch 140 is positioned at the top of sensor bar 160, is used for contacting with sensor bar 160.
When electric power transfer was given motor 110, this motor 110 just began rotation, thereby made turbine gear 122 rotations that are meshed with turbine 114.Therefore, by first spur gear 124 that is meshed with turbine gear 122, and second spur gear 126 that is meshed with first spur gear 124, driving force is transferred to driving gear 128.When ice maker container 130 was rotated in a clockwise direction, ice cube was discharged from ice maker container 130, like this ice cube was stored in the ice cube storage bin 150 that is arranged in ice maker container 130 belows.
In addition, by the rotation of driving gear 128, cam 129 is contacted with sensor bar 160.Therefore, when an end of sensor bar 160 moved downward, the other end moved upward, thereby the end of sensor bar 160 is contacted with the end of limit switch 140.Then, send the signal of limit switch 140 to control module, make motor 110 counter-rotatings.Because motor 110 counter-rotatings, driving force also oppositely is transferred to ice maker container 130 with respect to above-mentioned transmission, and ice maker container 130 turns back to initial position after having arranged ice cube.
Yet, in the automatic ice-making device of traditional refrigerator, because ice maker is controlled motor by a limit switch, so often break down.In addition, because power only transmits by gear assembly, so the control power delivery is relatively more difficult.
Therefore, purpose of the present invention is exactly the problem that will solve above-mentioned existence, and a kind of automatic ice-making device that is easy to control power delivery, can reduces the refrigerator of fault is provided.
For achieving the above object, the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator of the present invention comprises:
A housing;
One is come the ice maker container of ice making by chilled water, and this ice maker container is connected with housing;
A motor that is used to produce the driving force that drives ice maker container, this motor is contained in the housing, and has a rotating shaft;
Power delivery parts, these parts are used for transmitting by the driving force that motor produced to ice maker container, thereby make the ice maker container upset or turn back to initial position;
One first microswitch, this switch be by contacting with above-mentioned power delivery parts, thereby transmit one first signal to control module, so that the driving direction of motor turns to;
One second microswitch, this switch be by contacting with above-mentioned power delivery parts, thereby transmit a secondary signal to control module, to connect the electric current of supplying with motor;
One the 3rd microswitch, this switch are used to detect in the ice cube storage bin that places above-mentioned ice maker container below whether be full of ice cube, and when being full of fully by ice cube in the ice cube storage bin, this switch transmits one the 3rd signal to control module and stops ice making;
According to the present invention, the power delivery parts are contained in the above-mentioned housing, the power delivery parts comprise: a worm gear, this worm gear is integrally formed in the end of machine shaft; A helical axis has a worm-gear toothing that integrally forms on the precalculated position of this helical axis, worm-gear toothing and the engagement of described worm gear; A tooth bar that is connected with above-mentioned helical axis, this tooth bar is along with front-rear reciprocation movement is made in the rotation of helical axis; One places the pinion on the tooth bar, and this pinion is meshed with tooth bar, to guarantee pinion idle running when above-mentioned tooth bar is reciprocating; A driving gear, this driving gear and above-mentioned pinion mesh rotationally, and have an axis that is connected with ice maker container.
Inside at first end of above-mentioned tooth bar is formed with internal thread, and an end and the above-mentioned internal thread of this helical axis mesh rotationally.The inwall of housing is provided with a pair of support that forms integral body and give prominence to from inwall with inwall, is used for the above-mentioned power delivery parts of rotatably support.Worm-gear toothing is arranged on this between the support.Between worm-gear toothing and this are to support, be provided with a pair of packing ring that is beneficial to the worm-gear toothing rotation.With the first end opposite second end of above-mentioned tooth bar on, be formed with a bossing, this bossing contacts with first microswitch.
Above-mentioned first microswitch comprise one be connected with the sidewall of housing and with the joining microswitch of control module, and vane, when this vane contacted with the bossing of tooth bar, this vane was controlled above-mentioned microswitch.A guide member, it is fixed on the sidewall of housing, is used for stably guiding the reciprocating motion of above-mentioned tooth bar.This guide member is L-shaped, and the bottom surface of tooth bar and a side contact with L shaped guide member slidably.
On the periphery of driving gear, be formed with the V-shaped groove that extends to the driving gear center, be used for and the contacted round member of the 3rd device, be integrally formed on the side of driving gear.Second microswitch is connected with the sidewall of housing, and links with control module, and second microswitch comprises a vane, when this vane when V-shaped groove on the driving gear contacts, vane is controlled above-mentioned second microswitch.
A sensor bar, it moves up or down according to being stored in the ice cube amount in the ice cube storage bin.A cam is integrally formed on the end of this sensor bar.Cam is a rectangular slab, is formed with one and is used for and the contacted inclined-plane of the bossing of tooth bar on the upper surface of cam.
The 3rd microswitch and control module link, and it comprises a vane, and when the 3rd microswitch contacted with the bottom of cam, this vane was controlled above-mentioned the 3rd microswitch.
Sensor bar comprises: one and the integrally formed first end of cam, and this end is in order to the bossing of contact tooth bar; A second end, this end is mutually opposed with first end, and forms as one with reclinate sweep, and places in the ice cube storage bin; And the mid portion that is provided with pivot hole, can pass pivot pin by this pivot hole, thereby pivotally be fixed on sensor bar on the housing; A plate, it is connected with sweep, and when when ice row in the ice cube storage bin, this plate is used for the cam that moves up, and is provided with a rectangle projection below this plate.
As mentioned above, in the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator of the present invention, because the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator is controlled automatic ice-making device by a plurality of switches, thus be easy to stably control automatic ice-making device, thus the generation of fault reduced.
After by the reference accompanying drawing preferred embodiment being described in detail, other purpose of the present invention, feature and advantage will become clearer.
Fig. 1 is the perspective view of the automatic ice-making device of conventional refrigerator;
Fig. 2 is the installation diagram of the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the enlarged perspective of the tooth bar of the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the enlarged perspective of the driving gear of the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator of the present invention;
Fig. 5 is the enlarged perspective of the ice maker container of the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator of the present invention;
Fig. 6 is the schematic diagram of the sensor bar state of a control of the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator of the present invention;
Below, with reference to the accompanying drawings the preferred embodiments of the present invention are described in detail.
Figure 2 shows that the automatic ice-making device 300 of refrigerator of the present invention, as shown in Figure 2, the automatic ice-making device 300 of refrigerator includes housing 305; Come the ice maker container 330 of ice making by chilled water; Be arranged on the motor 310 that drives the driving force of ice maker container 330 in the housing 305, in order to generation; Power transfering device 370, this device are used for transmitting the driving force that is produced by motor 310 to ice maker container 330, make ice maker container 330 upsets or turn back to initial position; First microswitch 364, this switch transmit first signal and give control module 302 by contact automatic ice-making device 300, thereby change turning to of motor 310; Second microswitch 360, this switch transmit a signal and give control module 302 by contact first microswitch 364, thereby connect the electric current of supplying with motor 310; The 3rd microswitch 366, whether this switch is used to detect the ice cube storage bin 340 that places ice maker container 330 belows and is full of by ice, simultaneously, and after ice cube storage bin 340 is full of by ice, this switch is used for transmitting the 3rd signal and gives control module 302, thereby stops the running of automatic ice-making device 300.
Motor 310 is installed in the housing 305 by many fixed components 314, and is connected with control module 302 by relay 307.Motor 310 is equipped with rotating shaft 311, integrally is formed with a turbine 312 on an end of rotating shaft 311.
Power transfering device 370 includes: helical axis 322, be used for meshing with the turbine 312 of motor 310, and be formed with turbine gear 324 in the end of helical axis 322; Tooth bar 320, this tooth bar is made front-rear reciprocation movement according to turning to of helical axis 322; The pinion 327 of idle running when tooth bar 320 moves back and forth; With driving gear 350, this gear is meshed with pinion 327, and has an axis 356 that is connected with ice maker container 330.
The inwall of housing 305 is provided with pair of brackets 326, and this support 326 forms as one with the inwall of housing 305, and from the inwall projection, is used for supporting power transfering device 370.Turbine gear 324 is arranged on this between the support 326.Between turbine gear 324 and paired support 326, a pair of packing ring 328 that helps 324 rotations of turbine gear is set.
As shown in Figures 2 and 3, the top of tooth bar 320 is formed with the screw thread 329 that is used for pinion 327 engagements, and is formed with hollow bulb 323 in the inside of tooth bar 320.On the surface of hollow bulb 323, be shaped on screw thread 329, hollow bulb 323 is inserted in the end of helical axis 322.The other end of tooth bar 320 is formed with ledge 325, and this ledge 325 contacts with vane 365 in being arranged on first microswitch 364.Pinion 327 places between tooth bar 320 and the driving gear 350, idle running when tooth bar 320 along continuous straight runs move back and forth.In addition, pinion 327 is meshed with driving gear 350, so that to driving gear 350 transmission driving forces.
On the other hand, tooth bar 320 is also done axial rotation by the rotation of helical axis 322 during moving back and forth.Therefore, the rotation that a guide member 321 stops tooth bar 320 is set, this guide member 321 guides the reciprocating motion of tooth bar 320 slidably.Guide member 321 is the L shaped plates that are fixed on the side of housing 305, and the bottom surface of tooth bar 320 and side contact slidably with L shaped guide member 321.
As Fig. 2 and shown in Figure 4, this driving gear 350 transmits the rotation of pinion 327 to ice maker container 330, thus upset ice maker container 330 or make ice maker container 330 return initial position.Be formed with on the sagittal plane of this driving gear 350 and be used for the screw thread 351 that is meshed with pinion 327, be formed with at the center of driving gear 350 to the outstanding rotating shaft 356 of the direction of ice maker container 330.This rotating shaft 356 links with rectangular slot 336 on the first end that is formed on ice maker container 330.Rotating shaft 356 is a rectangular shape, in order to prevent the slip of ice maker container 330 during the rotation of driving gear 350.In addition, round member 354 is inserted in the rotating shaft 356 of driving gear 350.The diameter of this round member 354 at the circumference place of round member 354, is formed with the V-shaped groove 352 that extends to round member 354 centers less than the diameter of driving gear 350.V-shaped groove on the vane 361 on the V-shaped groove 352 of round member 354 and the side that is arranged on second microswitch 360 contacts.
When driving gear 350 rotations, round member 354 is also along with rotation.At this moment, the V-shaped groove 362 of the V-shaped groove 352 of round member 354 and second microswitch 360 interconnects or throws off.
As Fig. 2 and shown in Figure 5, usually, ice maker container 330 is the container of rectangular shape, and is separated by dividing plate 337, in order to store the water of supply.The first end of ice maker container 330 is installed in rotation on the fixed head 338, and this fixed head 338 is installed on the housing 305 of automatic ice-making device 300.Fixed head 338 comprises a first end that is installed on the housing 305, and a second end that integrally forms with block 334.Be provided with a connecting hole 335 at distance block 334 certain-length places in addition.The second end place of ice maker container 330 is formed with a rectangular slot 336.A detector that is used to detect the ice making situation is installed in the bottom surface of ice maker container 330.
As Fig. 2 and shown in Figure 6, sensor bar is one and is used to detect the device whether ice cube storage bin 340 is full of by ice.This sensor bar 346 comprises: with cam 342 integrally formed first ends, in order to the ledge 325 of contact tooth bar 320; With sweep 344 integrally formed the second ends, this sweep is bent downwardly and places in the ice cube storage bin 340; And the mid portion that is provided with pivot hole 343, pivot pin 349 can be passed by this pivot hole 343, thereby sensor bar 346 pivotally is fixed on the housing 305.
Cam 342 is a rectangular slab, is formed with an inclined-plane 341 on a horizontal surface 345 of this cam 342.The bottom surface of this cam 342 contacts with vane 368 on the sidewall that is installed in the 3rd microswitch 366.
A plate 348 is connected with sweep 344, when when ice row in ice cube storage bin 340, and this plate 348 cam 342 that is used for moving up.Be provided with rectangular projection 371 below the plate 348, widen contact area with ice cube with this.
To be described the operation of the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator of the present invention below.
As shown in Figure 2, at first, water supplied with in the ice maker container 330 on the housing 305 be fixed in automatic ice-making device 300.After water was filled with ice maker container 330, to ice-making compartment 302, water had just become ice then with the cold air transmission ﹠ distribution.Simultaneously, 330 that be connected with ice maker container, survey the ice making situations in order to the sensor 332 that detects the ice making situation, transmit a signal to control module 302 then in order to drive motors 310, the rotating shaft 311 of motor 310 begins to rotate like this.Therefore, begin rotation to the turbine gear 324 of engagement, then, also begin rotation with turbine 312 integrally formed helical axis 322 with turbine 312.The tooth bar 320 that is meshed with helical axis 322 travels forward.By the guide member 321 that contacts with side slip with the bottom surface of tooth bar 320, tooth bar 320 stably travels forward.
Simultaneously, a pinion 327 that is formed on the tooth bar 320 rotates in a counter-clockwise direction, and the driving gear 350 that the result is meshed with pinion 327 rotates in a clockwise direction.Therefore, the ice maker container 330 that is connected with driving gear 350 by rotating shaft 356 overturns in a clockwise direction.After 180 ° of ice maker container 330 upsets, ice maker container 330 contacts with block 334, and this block 334 is arranged on the end of the fixed head 338 that fixes with housing 305.Therefore, when ice maker container 330 overturn in the mode of twist motion, the ice cube that is stored in the ice cube storage bin 340 was just therefrom discharged.The ice cube of discharging is stored in the ice cube storage bin 340 that places ice maker container 330 belows.When ice maker container 330 overturns after 180 ° in a clockwise direction, be formed at the ledge 325 of tooth bar 320 the second ends, contact with vane 365 on being installed in first microswitch 364.Simultaneously, first microswitch sends activation signal to control module 302, and in order to turning to of change motor 310, thereby tooth bar 320 moves backward.So the pinion 327 that meshes with tooth bar rotates in a clockwise direction.Therefore the driving gear 350 that is meshed with pinion 327 rotates in a counter-clockwise direction.
Therefore, the ice maker container 330 that overturns in a clockwise direction after 180 ° turns back to initial position, and the round member 354 in the rotating shaft 356 of insertion driving gear 350 begins to rotate.Simultaneously, be formed at the vane 361 lip-deep V-shaped grooves 362 of second microswitch 360, contact with V-shaped groove 352 on the circumferential surface that is formed at round member 354.Therefore, second microswitch 360 sends activation signal to control module 302, in order to stop the rotation of motor 310.Then, supply water again and give ice maker container 330, restart the ice making circulation.
On the other hand, when tooth bar 320 travels forward, be formed at the ledge 325 of the second end of tooth bar 320, contact with the inclined-plane 341 of cam 342 on being fixed on sensor bar 346.Therefore, cam 342 moves downward along with travelling forward of tooth bar 320, and the sensor bar 346 that pivotally is fixed on the housing moves upward.Simultaneously, the ice cube of discharging from ice maker container 330 is stored in the ice cube storage bin 340.Therefore, when ice cube storage bin 340 was full of by ice, sensor bar 346 remained on the top of ice cube storage bin 340.The full load condition of ice cube storage bin is recorded by the projection 371 that is formed at sensor bar 346 bottoms.
The cam 342 that is connected with sensor bar 346 moves downward, thereby contacts with the vane 368 of the 3rd microswitch 366.The 3rd microswitch 366 sends activation signal to control module 302, in order to the work of the automatic ice-making device that stops refrigerator.
When ice cube was discharged from ice cube storage bin 340, sensor bar 346 was by the weight of the plate 348 that is connected with the sweep of test section and move downward.
By as can be seen to the description of embodiment, because the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator is controlled automatic ice-making device by a plurality of switches, thus be easy to stably control automatic ice-making device, thus the generation of fault reduced.
Although the present invention has been done special description with reference to most preferred embodiment; but those skilled in the art is to be understood that; under the protection domain situation of the present invention that does not exceed claim and limited, can make various modifications to forms more of the present invention and details.
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1. the automatic ice-making device of a refrigerator comprises:
A housing;
One is come the ice maker container of ice making by chilled water, and this ice maker container is connected with housing;
A motor that is used to produce the driving force that drives ice maker container, this motor is contained in the housing, and has a rotating shaft;
One first device, this device are used for transmitting by the driving force that motor produced to ice maker container, thereby make the ice maker container upset or turn back to initial position;
One second device, this device changes turning to of motor by contacting with first device thereby transmit one first signal to control module;
One the 3rd device, this device is connected the electric current of supplying with motor by contacting with above-mentioned first device thereby transmit a secondary signal to control module;
One the 4th device, this device is used to detect in the ice cube storage bin that places under the ice maker container whether be full of ice cube, and when being full of fully by ice cube in the ice cube storage bin, the 4th device transmits one the 3rd signal to control module and stops ice making.
2. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 1 wherein, is contained in the inside of above-mentioned housing with first device, and first device comprises: a worm gear, and this worm gear is integrally formed in the end of machine shaft; A helical axis integrally is formed with a worm-gear toothing on the precalculated position of this helical axis, worm-gear toothing and worm gear engagement; A tooth bar that is connected with helical axis, this tooth bar is along with front-rear reciprocation movement is made in the rotation of helical axis; One places the pinion on the tooth bar, and this pinion is meshed with tooth bar, to guarantee this pinion idle running when above-mentioned tooth bar is reciprocating; And a driving gear, this driving gear and above-mentioned pinion mesh rotationally, and have an axis that is connected with ice maker container.
3. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 2 wherein, is formed with internal thread in the inside of first end of tooth bar, and an end and the internal thread of helical axis mesh rotationally.
4. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 2, wherein, the inwall of housing is provided with a pair of and inwall forms as a whole and from the outstanding support of inwall, be used for rotatably support first device, and worm-gear toothing is arranged on this between the support.
5. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 4 wherein, between worm-gear toothing and paired support, is provided with a pair of packing ring that helps the worm-gear toothing rotation.
6. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 2, wherein, with the direction opposite second end of the first end of tooth bar on, be formed with bossing, this bossing contacts with second device.
7. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 6, wherein, above-mentioned second device is installed in the housing, second device comprises a microswitch that is connected and is connected with control module with the sidewall of housing, and vane, when this vane contacts with the bossing of tooth bar, vane operation microswitch.
8. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 6 wherein, is fixed on a guide member on the sidewall of housing, in order to stably to guide the reciprocating motion of tooth bar.
9. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 8, wherein, guide member is L-shaped, and the bottom surface of tooth bar and a side contact with this L shaped guide member slidably.
10. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 6, wherein, on the periphery of driving gear, be formed with the V-shaped groove that may extend into the driving gear center, be used for being integrally formed in a side of driving gear with the contacted round member of the 3rd device.
11. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 10, wherein, the 3rd device is contained in the housing, the 3rd device comprises a microswitch that is connected and is connected with control module with the sidewall of housing, and vane, when this vane when V-shaped groove on the driving gear contacts, vane control microswitch.
12. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 6 wherein, is installed in the 4th device in the housing, the 4th device comprises a sensor bar, and it moves up or down according to being stored in the ice cube amount in the ice cube storage bin; A cam, it is integrally formed on the end of this sensor bar; With the joining microswitch of control module; And a vane, when this vane contacts with the bottom of cam, vane control microswitch.
13. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 12, wherein, sensor bar comprises a first end that forms and contact with the bossing of tooth bar with cam integral body; A second end, this end is mutually opposed with first end, and forms as one with reclinate sweep, and places in the ice cube storage bin; And the mid portion that is provided with pivot hole, can pass pivot pin by this pivot hole, thereby sensor bar pivotally is fixed on the housing.
14. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 13, wherein, sensor bar has a plate that is connected with sweep, when row's ice in the ice cube storage bin, this plate is used for the cam that moves up, and is provided with the projection of a rectangular shape below this plate.
15. the automatic ice-making device of refrigerator according to claim 12, wherein, cam is a cuboid plate, is formed with one and is used for and the contacted inclined-plane of the bossing of tooth bar on the upper surface of cam.
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